What are the important requirement for successful silkworm rearing?
Successful rearing of bivoltine silkworm requires: 1. Good quality mulberry leaves 2. Good hygienic conditions. 3. Optimum environmental conditions 150 How the silkworm larva infected with pebrine looks like Pebrine is a disease caused by a parasitic microsporidian, Nosema bombycis Nageli 1. Diseases larvae show slow growth, undersized body and poor appetite. 2. Diseases larvae reveal pale and flaccid body. Tiny black spots appear on larval integument. 3. Dead larvae remain rubbery and do not undergo putrefaction shortly after death.
